Issue 480, improve performance of update-index

[bgn42]

Fixes

#480

Changes

• maintain version info in index.pidx with current downloaded pdsc files
• added list of pdsc's with download errors to return to old version in index.pidx

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[jkrech]

I am testing the version that was built from this PR:

It is much faster, however:
a) if I run a cpackget add ARM::CMSIS-FreeRTOS multiple times, cpackget keeps downloading the index.pidx over and over again. What are we checking before we update the index.pidx? update.cfg` reads:

Date=31-3-2025
Auto=false

b) I: Infineon::CAT1B_DFP was updated from latest version "1.0.0" to "1.1.0"
I: Downloading Infineon.CAT1B_DFP.pdsc...
I: 100% |██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| (123/123 kB, 248 kB/s)

The output does not make much sense in "past tense" the updated pdsc file with the new version is downloaded after the message.

I: Infineon::CAT1B_DFP has a new public version "1.1.0" with previous version "1.0.0"

Does that work better?

c) It is quite annoying that the version of the pack already installed is not displayed:

I: Adding pack "ARM::CMSIS-FreeRTOS"
E: Pack "ARM::CMSIS-FreeRTOS" is already installed here: "C:\Users\jkrech\AppData\Local\Arm\Packs\ARM\CMSIS-FreeRTOS", use the --force-reinstall (-F) flag to force installation

I would like to see the @version as part of the packID and for consistency the folder should include the version folder

E: Pack "ARM::CMSIS-FreeRTOS@1.0.0" is already installed here: "C:\Users\jkrech\AppData\Local\Arm\Packs\ARM\CMSIS-FreeRTOS/1.0.0", 

[bgn42]

The file index.pidx is always read as part of the "online"-check. But now it is read twice because the Viper library cannot parse .cfg files anymore and the time check fails for that reason. I'll have a deeper look at this now. Maybe I should not use Viper for that. I already removed Viper for writing that file because of problems in that library.

[bgn42]

@jkrech:
For case c I need to find that verseion somehow. currently it is not known.

c) It is quite annoying that the version of the pack already installed is not displayed:

I: Adding pack "ARM::CMSIS-FreeRTOS"
E: Pack "ARM::CMSIS-FreeRTOS" is already installed here: "C:\Users\jkrech\AppData\Local\Arm\Packs\ARM\CMSIS-FreeRTOS", use the --force-reinstall (-F) flag to force installation

I would like to see the @Version as part of the packID and for consistency the folder should include the version folder

E: Pack "ARM::CMSIS-FreeRTOS@1.0.0" is already installed here: "C:\Users\jkrech\AppData\Local\Arm\Packs\ARM\CMSIS-FreeRTOS/1.0.0",

[jkrech]

Great: the version is displayed now:

E: Pack "NXP::LPC834_DFP@25.03.00" is already installed here: "C:\Users\jkrech\AppData\Local\Arm\Packs\NXP\LPC834_DFP\25.03.00", use the --force-reinstall (-F) flag to force installation

I think we should use a smaller file for the connection check?

https://www.keil.com/pack/Keil.vidx (12KB)

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[jkrech]

LGTM